# Easyship vs ShipStation API (slim)

> Easyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against ShipStation API's 59.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShipStation API leads on maintenance & community. Both do shipping rates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Easyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against ShipStation API's 59.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShipStation API leads on maintenance & community. Both do shipping rates.

- Easyship: B 68.8, rank #163 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.min.md
- ShipStation API: C 59.3, rank #382 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shipstation.min.md
- Easyship, good for An agent that ships parcels for a small or mid-sized merchant, mostly cross-border, and wants rates, labels, duties and pickups from one account without carrier contracts. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 64; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 64; Security & auth, 61 against 32; Transparency & trust, 71 against 64. Also Runs on your own machine.
- ShipStation API, good for An agent working inside a merchant's existing ShipStation account (orders, batches, inventory, labels), or a developer who wants a free sandbox through the ShipStation API plans. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 73 against 56.

| Category | Easyship | ShipStation API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 64 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 32 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Easyship | ShipStation API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Easyship Inc. | Auctane LLC d/b/a ShipStation |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://public-api.easyship.com` | `https://api.shipstation.com/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Price for shipping rates | $0.01 per call | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Easyship's terms of service. The easyship-mcp server on PyPI and the plugin repository are MIT | Proprietary service under ShipStation's terms of service. The v2 OpenAPI file is marked MIT and the SDKs on GitHub are Apache 2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 25 | none |
| MCP registry | `com.easyship/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-28 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-28 | 2026-03-18 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 0 stars, 79 PyPI/wk | 6.8k npm/wk |